The Final Act of Juliette Willoughby: A Novel

ISBN: 0063323001

Author: Lloyd, Ellery

Condition: New

Read this in about two sittings-absolutely loved it. Dazzlingly clever and beautifully twisty. Dont miss it!!-Emilia Hart, author of WeywardThe gripping follow up to the smart, stylish, and savage (People) New York Times bestseller and Reeses Book Club pick The Club-a twisty mystery involving a cursed wealthy family and a Surrealist painting which holds the key to three suspicious deaths over the course of a century.Some women won't be painted out of history . . .Everybody knows that in 1938, runaway heiress artist Juliette Willoughby perished in an accidental studio fire in Paris, alongside her masterpiece Self Portrait As Sphinx.Fifty years later, two Cambridge art history students are confounded when they stumble across proof that the fire was no accident but something more sinister. What they uncover threatens the very foundation of Juliettes aristocratic family and revives rumors of the infamous curse that has haunted the Willoughbys for generations.But what does their discovery mean? And how is it connected to a brutal murder in present-day Dubai?A tale of love and madness, obsession and revenge, The Final Act of Juliette Willoughby unravels the riddle posed by a Sphinx who refuses to reveal her secrets . . .